Reid Frazier | Allegheny Front
Energy ReporterReid R. Frazier covers energy for The Allegheny Front. His work has taken him as far away as Texas and Louisiana to report on the petrochemical industry and as close to home as Greene County, Pennsylvania to cover the shale gas boom. His award-winning work has also aired on NPR, Marketplace and other outlets. Reid is currently contributing to StateImpact Pennsylvania, a collaboration among The Allegheny Front, WESA, WITF and WHYY covering the Commonwealth's energy economy. Email: reid@alleghenyfront.org
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For years, residents have complained about the MAX Environmental hazardous waste landfill in the tiny town of Yukon, Westmoreland County. A federal environmental investigation recently found the landfill may be breaking several federal environmental laws.
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Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, and the Mon Valley near Pittsburgh protested outside a coal and steel industry conference co-sponsored by Norfolk Southern in Downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro went to Washington County to announce a voluntary agreement the state was signing with CNX, the Canonsburg-based natural gas driller. He also signaled he’d push his Department of Environmental Protection to write tougher regulations for the fracking industry.
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U.S. Steel unveiled a new battery-powered locomotive for its Clairton Coke Works near Pittsburgh on Monday. The company is switching two of the 10 locomotives it uses in its local operations to electric from diesel-powered.
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The U.S. EPA announced Thursday that major work to clean up the site of chemically tainted soil and water in East Palestine, Ohio, is almost complete, nearly nine months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed there.
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The state is on track to get two hydrogen hubs, one based in Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey, and Delaware and the other including projects in West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky.
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The Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub is planned for western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
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Captain Evan Clark of Three Rivers Waterkeeper started trawling the shores of the Ohio River in Beaver County in September 2022 to monitor Shell’s newly opened ethane cracker for water pollution. He began finding plastic pellets called nurdles, similar to what the plant was supposed to produce. But the pellets weren’t the same size or shape as what Shell’s plant would make.
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Hospitals are some of the biggest carbon polluters almost no one thinks about. The American health care system accounts for an estimated 8.5% of the country’s carbon footprint.
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A growing number of organizations in Western Pennsylvania say they’re worried about proposals for a so-called ‘hydrogen hub’ in the region — where a network of companies would produce, process and use hydrogen.